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Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness

by David Attenborough

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A portrait of the ocean’s past, present, and possible future

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A portrait of the ocean’s past, present, and possible future

David Attenborough and longtime collaborator Colin Butfield frame the ocean as both a vast, little-explored habitat and a system closely connected to life on land, climate, and the air we breathe. Across eight ocean habitats, the book brings together personal stories, historical perspective, species, and scientific discoveries from the past century. Its account pairs the marine world’s vulnerability with the possibility of recovery when given the chance, then looks toward a vision of restored oceans. The scope links natural history with environmental conservation, presenting the ocean not as a distant wilderness but as central to the planet’s future.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in ocean habitats, marine species, and natural history.
  • Those seeking a broad introduction to ocean conservation and environmental protection.
  • Readers interested in how marine ecosystems relate to climate and life on land.

Themes

Ocean ecosystemsMarine biodiversityEnvironmental conservationOcean resilience and restorationClimate and planetary interdependence

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Book overview

Award-winning broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough and longtime collaborator Colin Butfield present a powerful call to action focused on our planet's oceans, exploring how critical this habitat is for the survival of humanity and the earth's future.

Through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science, Ocean uncovers the mystery, the wonder, and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet--the one which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate, and creates the air we breathe. This book showcase the oceans' remarkable resilience: they can, and in some cases have, recovered the fastest, if we only give them the chance.

Drawing a course across David Attenborough's own lifetime, Ocean takes readers on an adventure-laden voyage through eight unique ocean habitats, countless intriguing species, and the most astounding discoveries of the last 100 years, to a future vision of a fully restored marine world--one even more spectacular than we could possibly hope for. Ocean reveals the past, present and potential future of our blue planet. It is a book almost a century in the making, but one that has never been more urgently needed.
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